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One challenge is with Exadata cells in a lab environment is that they are secure! This means that it has long lock out times in the event of an incorrect login and tough lock settings. You can manually change these.. but every time you update your cell there is a chance they will be reset.

Create the required oracle network resources on one node of the cluster. If you’re uncertain about the subnet to specify you can use one of the online calculators such as http://www.subnet-calculator.com/

Define the network interface as a global public cluster interface as root

Add entries to the grid home tnsnames.ora. There are slightly different configuartions per node, as we will explicitly name the ‘local’ and ‘remote’ nodes. If we had more than 2 nodes, then our entries for LISTENER_IBREMOTE and LISTENER_IPREMOTE would list all of the non-local nodes.